In addition, the Spry team spruced up their selector traversal capability with the introduction of the Element Selector utility:

Ah, the sweet Element Selector. Along the lines of jQuery and DOMQuery, the Element Selector (SpryDOMUtils.js) is a utility used for grabbing multiple parts of the page using CSS Selectors and applying functions to them. Our speed is on par with other tools and we have robust and accurate CSS3 support. Read about it here and check it out here.

@Jc: They do unless you’re typing so fast and completely overlook the little red line below the misspelled word. ;) Thx again.

Comment by Rey Bango — October 2, 2007

@ Philippe: Spry is only tactical for Adobe, while Flex is strategic, so it doesn’t surprise me that Adobe also uses other Ajax projects such as YUI and Prototype. With Flex they want to totally dominate the market for plug-in based solutions, while the Ajax-based Spry is merely an add-on for Dreamweaver and ColdFusion.

@Jep- for what it’s worth, plenty of Spry developers are using the framework independently of Adobe tools/products. Sure, we integrate tightly with our own authoring/server products, but the Spry framework has it’s own dev team, and out in the public for almost a year before DW/CF support for it was introduced. There’s far more lurking underneath the hood in Spry than either DW or CF leverages today.